Here’s a question for a hot Summer day: did early Maritimers go to the beach?

https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-history-of-going-to-the-beach

The first people to ever walk all the way across Canada were Cape Bretoners who did it because someone bet them they couldn't.

https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-first-people-to-walk-across-canada-did-it-because-of-a-bet

In only two hours massive fire completely destroys bustling Campbellton.

At 2pm on July 11th 1910 Campbellton was a prosperous town of 6000 people on New Brunswick’s North Shore. Two hours later it would be completely destroyed in a massive inferno.

But it doesn't break the spirit of the people and they rebuild within a year.

https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/in-only-two-hours-campbellton-burned-to-the-ground

The true story behind the chilling ghost story.

Around Maritime campfires we tell the tale of the Dungarvon Whooper – a macabre ghost story of a cook who was murdered for a bag of money, and who haunted the forests making screaming noises that sounded like whoops.

https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/the-dungarvon-who

A grey mist hung over the land which the rain never cleared. Snow fell in June and July. Frost came in August. Crops didn’t grow. The spectre of starvation hung over the Maritimes.

One year Summer never arrived in the Maritimes, earning that miserable year the nicknames; The Poverty Year; Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death, and The Year Without A Summer.

https://backyardhistory.ca/f/the-year-without-a-summer

If you think Maritimers drink a lot today, wait till you hear how much earlier generations of Maritimers drank!

A tragic true story of forbidden love, bloody murder, and miscarried justice in Fredericton.

Elizabeth Driscoll was considered the most beautiful young woman in Fredericton. “A very sweet, ladylike girl” wrote famous British author Juliana Horatia Ewing who happened to be in town during the murder, trial, and subsequent riots. "But," Juliana wrote, "Elizabeth’s family has always been a bad lot.”

https://backyardhistory.ca/popular/f/getting-away-with-murder

After a small town mob boss starts making big moves in the black market, a straight-laced British detective goes undercover to try to figure out what is going on.

Much to a small village's surprise, a Soviet bomber crash lands in a bog. The world turns its attention to the 1939 race to get to first reach the pilots.

Unraveling a legendary Maritimes mystery.

A few days before Christmas in 1859 a mysterious stranger was found freezing, but still alive, alone deep in the woods. Disabled from his injuries, he would be murdered to save the town money. Or did he escape death and start a new life?

Coincidentally, around the same time he goes missing in New Brunswick, a mysterious legless man washes up on the beach of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia. 

https://backyardhistory.ca/articles/f/the-legless-mystery-man